Paris sweet Paris

A beautiful weekend in Paris, and even though we were both sick during most of it and stuck in our hotel room, we did manage to get some good shopping in. Of course, it helped that we were 2 short blocks off the Champs-Elysées, in a beautiful Art Deco hotel called the Prince De Galle. We managed to ding the Mont Blanc store, as well as a cool eyeglass store (new specs for us both—tres chic!). A few delicious Leffe beers and snacks at some of the lovely sidewalk cafes on the Champs helped keep us fortified. Mostly it was a room service weekend, although a few unexpected benefits of this approach included: Wild Wild West (the original series, not the lame-oh movie) and Casino, both dubbed into French. We also watched some French League soccer on a local arabic-language station, and of course the Rugby World Cup is happening here so that was on everywhere. We’ve been enjoying the OJ story from afar, and it’s cool to be here in France while Sarkozy and his crew bang on Iran. Monday we visited our client’s local facility in Colombes (much to the taxi driver’s chagrin), and met some very nice people, then it was back to the room to continue to rest and do some office work. Our attempt to get to Montmarte for dinner was thwarted by a cold drizzle (we’re both trying to get back to being healthy before our big flight to Argentina Wednesday evening, otherwise we’re worried our heads may pop). Today (Tuesday) we went to visit our client’s customer, a huge European defense and security company—they make drones and fighter aircraft and oh, by the way, the entire defense shield for Qatar—and it was something. Some places we could go, most places were off limits. The clouds are coming back in this afternoon, so it’s another chill-relax-ingest footage session before our last supper…which we’re hoping will be at an EXCELLENT Entrecote place we’ve been to before that’s just around the corner from the hotel…Realise de Venise. Tres tres bon!